Watch the emotional trailer for new documentary ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley’
The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, has finally been released.
“Come into my world,” Buckley’s unmistakable voice beckons, opening the trailer. In the clip, he adds suitably mythical quips like, “I’m just the music. Because when I’m dead, that’s the only thing that’ll be around.”
The singer-songwriter is a character that has often eluded mainstream depiction. After his death from drowning in 1997, many films have tried, and failed to tell his story. His mother even objected to Brad Pitt playing her son in a biopic.
The ‘Hallelujah’ singer’s death is one of the most tragic in music history. At the peak of his fame, while eagerly awaiting his bandmates to join him for work on his highly anticipated second album, Buckley opted for a swim in the Mississippi River. He was caught in the wake of a passing boat and never resurfaced.
As if aware of his soon-to-be tragic future, near the end of the trailer, the beloved artist declares, “I’ve been wrong, and completely ugly, I’ve been beautiful, I’ve been totally in love, I’ve been hideous, but I’ve never been dead.”
Berg, the mind behind other documentaries such as Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis and Janis: Little Girl Blue, collages together never-seen-before archive footage and interviews with his family and contemporaries.
The synopsis adds: “Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, Jeff’s former bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and luminaries like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley illuminates one of modern music’s most influential and enigmatic figures.”
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley will be released in US cinemas on August 8th. Subsequently, it will become available on streaming service HBO Max in the winter. So far, no UK release date has been announced.
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